My Darling is a Foreigner: A Manga about Dating a White Guy

My Darling is a Foreigner (Darling wa Gaikokujin) is a funny manga that came out in 2002 about what it’s like to be married to a foreigner in Japan.

It’s apparently a hilarious account of the quirks of Japanese culture and how they are perceived by others, and of co-habitation in general.

It is written as an autobiographical comedy based on the lives of author Saori Oguri and her white husband Tony Laszlo, a Hungarian-American journalist.

Tony is a mellow but hard-working guy who isn’t afraid to complain to the waiter about bad-tasting wine and likes to sneak to the fridge to get chocolate ice cream when Saori’s not looking.

Saori, the manga artist, is sometimes embarrassed by him and often annoyed at little things, like how he doesn’t do dishes right away or how he stacks them in the dish rack the wrong way – but mostly she finds his quirks endearing and his insights on the culture fascinating – fascinating enough that they’re the subject of her best-selling manga.

It looks like its only in Japanese, but it would be interesting to read an English language copy of this. Would anything be lost in translation?

From TokyoMango

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